CRITICAL THINKING



Critical Thinking

Table of Contents

Description of Thinking3

Sensing process3

Definition of Memory4

Description of Medium4

My Perception Instance5

My Perceptual Process5

Actual Facts vs. Perceived Thoughts6

Language Empowerment6

Leanings about Thinking7

Perceptual Blocks7

Personal Barriers7

Thoughts and Influence of Barriers on thought7

References8

Critical Thinking

Description of Thinking

Thinking is basically the manipulation of mental representations of information. Thinking may develop on an incident, by spontaneous feelings, situations, triggered sensations, or it becomes abstract by developing constructively. Sensing is unprocessed information that is not reflected in words. Thinking, on the other hand, is relational and can be interpreted in most of the situations.

Sensing process

In practice, when a man tries to establish the process of his thought, he wonders what conclusion it reached. The result is formulated in an assertion that we can assume, has a certain similarity. He then asks how this insurance can be justified; then he will start the search for a phrase, expressed in words, whose resemblance to previous contents of his thought the strike and, simultaneously, must be a logical link with sentence representing its conclusion. This is done in a way that if the proposal premise was true, the proposition-conclusion propositional conclusion should necessarily or naturally be true. This argument is a representation of the final part of his thought, as long as its logic is assured. The conclusion will be true as long as the premise is defined. Hence sensing process is unprocessed and needs defined terms to build upon it.

Definition of Memory

The memory functions include such concepts as "recognizing", "remembering", "imagining" etc. Our memories can give us comfort but also can give us fears. Memory is made up of a group of systems that cohesively work together. These systems consist of creating a memory, storing the memory and retrieving/recalling the memory.

Description of Medium

A medium is the means in which an individual communicates what he or she thinks. The brain develops thoughts that are to be interpreted in the form of ideas. These ideas are conveyed to the outer world in the form of perceptions, beliefs, and definitive words of actions. Language is a powerful medium to convey thoughts to others. We typically experience our thoughts as involving pictorial (or sensory) contents or as being in words. Language conveys our thoughts in the form of sensibly constructed words that are aimed at delivering a message to the audience. This idea has been preserved in psychology as the “dual code” theory of reasoning and memory. It ...